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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 25 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 28 (1959)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
The Clocks, Arrietty, Pod, and Homily are off down stream to Little Fordham.
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Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Diana Stanley
A Brother for the Orphelines (1959)
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Coal Camp Girl (1959)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
David and the Mountain (1959)
A Welsh boy breaks the rules to go up on the mountain where he rescues a cragfast sheep.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Emmett’s Pig (1959)
Author(s):
Mary Stolz
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
End of Term (1959)
Nicola and Lawrie Marlow return for their second fall term at Kingscote School.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Excuse Me! Certainly! (1959)
Willie finds that politeness is important.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Friday’s Tunnel (1959)
A mystery involving February and her brother Friday, who is digging a tunnel in the back yard and the large Callendar family and something to do with international intrigue.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Holiday Trench (1959)
The Maitlands and their friends decide to put a stop to cars driving on the beach.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Little Silver House (1959)
Author(s):
Jennie D. Lindquist
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Lucia Wilmot (1959)
Lucia is sixteen and suffers from tuberculous peritonitis. She has just received an offer of marriage from a veteran of the Spanish civil war and is thoroughly mixed up.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
A Matter of Pride (1959)
When the new teacher scolds Janie for not wearing shoes to school, she is too proud to admit her father is too poor to buy her new shoes.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.
Author(s):
Jean Craighead George
Illustrator(s):
Jean Craighead George
The Nine Questions (1959)
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges